14. London 2012
Sport can bring the world together, people from different cultures,
faith, physical abilities and languages!
It is a celebration of different cultures.
London celebrates its diversity through festivals throughout the
year from the Notting Hill Carnival to different religious festivals
such as Diwali and Eid.
Londoners certainly know how to throw a party and the Games
would be a great chance to get everyone celebrating together.

15. Interesting facts
Did you know there are over 14,000 athletes from 205
Olympic teams!
There are also 170 Paralympic teams competing at the
London 2012 Games!
In London there are more than 50 ethnic communities of
10,000 or more people.
More than 70 different national cuisines are available and an
incredible 300 different languages are spoken

16. Aims and Objectives
• Identify different software packages available to
manipulate images
• Identify different devices (hardware) that could be
used to manipulate images
• To manipulate an image using any available
software/hardware
Tip: Manipulate means to edit/change something from its original position

18. Software
Different graphics manipulation software:
MS Paint
Adobe Photoshop – various versions
GIMP
Fireworks
Many more which you can research yourself

19. Useful Online Editors
http://fotoflexer.com
http://pixlr.com/editor/
http://ipiccy.com/editor (I like this one!)
http://www.lunapic.com/editor/
You can search for many others yourself

20. Devices
Think of the different devices that you could
use to manipulate an image:
• Desktop computer
• Laptop
• Netbook
• Tablet
• Smartphone

21. Other hardware
• Graphics card features; internal memory e.g. cache,
RAM; processors
• Other hardware e.g. Digital camera drivers and card
• File storage e.g. CD ROM, hard drive, flash cards, USB
storage devices
• Input devices e.g. graphics tablet, mouse, digital
camera, scanner

22. Simple Image Manipulation
Demonstration
Bring on the iPad!

23. London 2012 Olympics Tasks
In your groups of 2 or 3 you have to:
Task 1: Choose one nation out of the 205 and download their flag as an
image file.
Tip: Create a new folder and name it Digital Graphics
Task 2: Manipulate the flag using a graphics software of your choice.
Tip: Image manipulation tips: you could resize, crop, change the contrast, brightness, colour,
cut or paste another image, or add any other effect to the original image.
Avoid MS Paint, try to use another graphics editing software that you may not have used
before.
Suggestions: GIMP or if on your mobile device any other graphics software such as Adobe
Photoshop Express for Android, IOS etc

24. Extension
If you have completed the manipulation task then you
can do the following:
The London Mayor has approached you to redesign
the London 2012 Olympic Logo!
Your task is to create a redesign which should be made
from your own creative skills but must include the
colours of the union jack
You may use any software and hardware device as
long as you are able to upload the completed logo
online before the start of the Olympics!.

25. Q&A -Discussions
What did we do today
What did you learn
How/where do you save your work?